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" People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! "

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" The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. "

" The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. "

" There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them. "

" Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. "

" Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. "

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer Science

" Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human. "

" But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out. "

" I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. "

" More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. "

" Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it. "

Douglas Rushkoff

" I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers. "

" I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. "

" I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. "

Whitfield Diffie

" The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all. "

" In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.' "

" We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers. "

" Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga. "

" We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable. "

" If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. "

" We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain. "

Arlie Russell Hochschild

" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "

" Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all. "

" My whole life had been designing computers I could never build. "

" The power of the computer is starting to spread. "

" People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware. "

" Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. "

" Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things. "

" Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically. "

" I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you. "

" Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. "